The Nation: Stay to Hell Out of This

The evidence that finally convinced Richard Nixon's lawyer, his intimate
aides and his hard-core congressional supporters that he had been
involved in the Watergate cover-up was contained in three transcripts
that he released to the public last week, along with a statement that
"portions of the tapes of these . . . conversations are at variance with
certain of my previous statements." The extraordinarily revealing
transcripts were of conversations that he had held with H.R. Haldeman,
then White House chief of staff, on June 23, 1972, just six days after
the Watergate breakin....